"A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt."

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Source : Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.245, Routledge

Emile Durkheim

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“You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women”
“And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.”

Source : Antonin Artaud (1988). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.485, Univ of California Press
“I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.”
“If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.”

Source : Robert E. Ornstein (1988). “Psychology, the Study of Human Experience”, Harcourt College Pub
“The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.”
“I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.”
“I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.”
“I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.”

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